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From: wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Various Fortrans
Keywords: Fortran standard
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Date: 14 Aug 90 17:52:17 GMT
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> 	1953	FORTRAN I
The first Fortran compiler was not delivered until 1957.
I heard it was to General Electric; can anyone confirm/refute that?
Not sure when someone actually started working on it.
> 	19??	FORTRAN II  ?
> 	19??	FORTRAN III ?
> 	1966	FORTRAN IV
This was a vendor product (IBM); other vendors had other various names.
The standard based on this generation became called Fortran 66
only after work started on Fortran 77.
> 	1977	FORTRAN 77
This, of course, was (still is) a standard.
> 	198?	FORTRAN 8X
Others have straightened this out.
> 	1990?   FORTRAN 90  ?
The correct way to write it (per the standard itself) is Fortran 90 (c/lc).
The final ballot to make Fortran 90 an ISO standard is being taken this fall.
There is very little doublt that this will be a standard early next year.
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